but the pentagon and the director of national intelligence have identified chinese actors as the world's most active and persistent perpetrators of economic espionage. >> bill plummer: huawei is huawei; huawei is not china. >> kroft: bill plummer is the american face of huawei, the company's u.s. vice president of external relations and the only executive the home office in shenzhen would let us speak to. we met him at huawei's north american headquarters in plano, texas. >> plummer: we have the responsibility to clean up ten years of misinformation and innuendo. >> kroft: what's the misinformation and innuendo? >> plummer: the suggestion that a company, by virtue of its heritage or flag of headquarters, is somehow more vulnerable than any other company to... to some sort of mischief. >> kroft: plummer told us that huawei is just another multinational corporation doing business in the united states, no different than siemens, samsung, or hyundai. >> plummer: this room is a clean room. >> kroft: he says huawei buys $6 billion in components from american suppliers every year and indirectly